Abstract
THE PSYCHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LIFE-LOVE MEASURE OF NORMAL AND SATISFACTORY SAMPLES
The present study was designed to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of a arabic version of the Love of Life Scale using a sample of 300 university students, and another sample n=30 clincal,it was found that the the Love of Life Scale has good internal consistency,Cronbach’s alpha was .92 and Love of Life Scale had significant positive correlation with Arabic Scale of Optimism (0.52) The scale displayed negative correlations with the Arabic Scale of Pessimism (-0.27) It was concluded that the Algerian version of the Love of Life Scale can be recommended for future research on positive psychology.
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